The Road Network in the Balkan Region and the Possiblity of the Development of Multimodal Trasnsport1
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DOI 10.20544/HORIZONS.B.03.1.16.P32 UDC 656.1(497.115:497) THE ROAD NETWORK IN THE BALKAN REGION AND THE POSSIBLITY OF THE DEVELOPMENT 1 OF MULTIMODAL TRASNSPORT Ema Berisha-Krasniqi College of Technical Applied Sciences “Tempulli” Str. Eduard Lir 31 Prishtina, Kosovo [email protected] Ivo Dukovski University “St. Kliment Ohridski” Faculty of Technical Sciences, Makedonska Falanga 33 Bitola, Republic of Macedonia [email protected] Abstract In this paper I addressed the position of Kosovo's road network and the harmonization of this network in connection with the Balkan road network and the possibility of organizing multimodal transport. Taking to consideration that Kosovo is a "hub" in the center of the Balkan area I have analyzed the importance of Multi-Modal development through the use of models of road, rail and sea transport. Organization of logistics centers in the Ballkan region with the main objective the use of multimodal transport and the role that Kosovo has for the development of this transport, as transport hub from where will be achieved shorter routes of transport, safer and faster services with lower costs. This paper also will considered the evaluation of the priorities of the national transport policy and treatment of important initiatives for the development of roads and transport corridors in the Balkans. Keywords – Multimodal Transport; Transport Corridors in Balkans; Networks 1 Original scientific paper 309 INTRODUCTION The transport is an integral part of economic and social activities and is regarded as the key to economic development for development of a country in particular and development of the whole world in general, hence there is a need for development of a transport with rapid and quality services, and more efficient through integrated multimodal transport systems. Therefore, from my perspective the organization of transport is viewed in a new vision of Ballkan and European integrated network, in order to minimize the shortcomings and disadvantages of multimodal transport. Developed global economy, enhanced ICT (Information and Communications Technology) and improved communication network have contributed to major changes in transport. Similarly as in EU developed countries and other European countries (of Central and Eastern Europe) and in Balkans, the rapid economic development imposes introduction and development of transport to a higher degree. The developed and modern transport has advantages of speed, availability, accessibility, reliability, security, sustainability, transparency and focusing on the last, which is the user. The developed transport leads to more effective use of the existing infrastructure with reduced environmental adverse impacts. Balkans has an important geostrategic position, which represents an important intersection linking European countries with Asia, Africa, etc. The suitable geographical position provides an advantage of transiting of the goods transportation from many European and World countries through the “Balkans Bridge”. PAN-EUROPEAN TRANSPORT CORRIDORS Pan-European Transport Corridors and transport zones have been conceptualized and decided in the meeting of European Ministers of Transport: 1. Prague in 1991, 2. Crete on 14-16.03 1994, and 3. Helsinki in 1997. Pan-European Corridors (shown in table 1) variously encompasses road, rail and waterway routes. 310 Table 1. Pan-European Transport Corridors No. of Designation Corridor Route Corridor of Corridor I (North- Helsinki - Tallinn - Riga – Kaunas and South) Klaipeda - Warsaw and Gdansk Branch A (Via/Rail Hanseatica) - St. Petersburg to Riga to Kaliningrad to Gdansk to Lübeck Branch B (Via Baltica/E 67) - Helsinki to Warsaw II (East-West) Berlin - Poznan – Warsaw- Brest - Minsk - Smolensk - Moscow -Nizhny Novgorod III Brussels - Aachen - Cologne - Dresden - Wrocław - Katowice - Kraków - Lviv – Kiev 1. Branch A - Berlin - Wrocław IV Dresden/Nuremberg - Prague - Vienna - Bratislava - Gyor - Budapest - Arad -Bucharest - Constan'a /Craiova - Sofia -Thessaloniki / Plovdiv - Istanbul. V (East-West) Venice - Trieste/Koper -Ljubljana - Maribor - Budapest - Uzhhorod -Lviv - Kiev. 1,600 km (994 mi) long. Branch A - Bratislava - Žilina - Košice –Uzhhorod Branch B - Rijeka - Zagreb – Budapest Branch C - Ploce - Sarajevo - Osijek –Budapest VI (North- Gdansk - Katowice - Žilina, with a western South) branch Katowice-Brno. VII (The Danube (Northwest-Southwest) -2,300 km (1,429 mi) River) long. VIII Durrës - Tirana - Skopje - Sofia - Plovdiv - Burgas - Varna. 1,500 km (932 mi) long. IX Helsinki - Vyborg - St. Petersburg - Pskov - Gomel - Kiev - Ljubashevka - Chisinau - Bucharest -Dimitrovgrad - Alexandroupolis.3,400 km (2,113 mi) long. Major sub-alignment: St. Petersburg -Moscow - Kiev. Branch A - Klaipeda - Vilnius - Minsk –Gomel Branch B - Kaliningrad - Vilnius - Minsk –Gomel Branch C - Ljubashevka - 311 Rozdilna –Odessa X Salzburg - Ljubljana - Zagreb - Beograd – Niš- Skopje - Veles - Thessaloniki. Branch A: Graz - Maribor – Zagreb Branch B: Budapest - Novi Sad – Beograd Branch C: Niš - Sofia - Plovdiv -Dimitrovgrad - Istanbul via Corridor IV Branch D: Veles - Prilep - Bitola - Florina – Igoumenitsa Burimi: SEETO Out of 10 abovementioned corridors, six corridors pass via Balkans, namely: Corridor IV (Rumania-Bulgaria), Corridor V (Croatia-Bosnia and Herzegovina), Corridor VII (Serbia, Rumania, and Bulgaria), Corridor VIII (Albania, Macedonia and Bulgaria) Corridor IX (Rumania-Bulgaria), and Corridor X (Croatia-Serbia-Bulgaria-Macedonia). SOUTH EAST EUROPE CORE REGIONAL NETWORK DEVELOPMENT – SEETO (South East Europe Transport Observatory). SEETO is regional transport organization established by the Memorandum of Understanding for the development of the Core Regional Transport Network (MoU) signed on June 11th 2014 by the Governments of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia and United Nations Mission in Kosovo on behalf of Kosovo. The core road and railway network consists of corridors and roads. The Corridors are defined and are Pan-European. Corridors are as follows: V, VII, VIII, IX, X, which provide international links with European Union. Routes, of which seven are road network and six railways, complete the core network aimed at linking capitals within the region and neighbouring countries. The goal is free movement of people, goods and services, thus giving the regional economy development opportunities. The total length of the Core road network is around six thousand kilometres, consisting of three thousand kilometres of corridors and over three thousand five hundred other roads. 312 Fig.1. Regions on T-v Diagram The software Trans Cad is used to carry out the road and transport corridors analysis in Balkans, and main roads in Kosovo (route 6 and 7), which provides the option of analysing O/D (ORIGIN-DESTINATION). Taking into account the topic of research: ROUTES AND TRANPSORT CORRIDORS in Balkans, as an opportunity of Multimodal transport development, the studying field is analysed as a space laying between Pan- European Corridors (TEN-T) South East Europe Core Regional Network Development (SEETO), define the travelling distances for vehicle, rail and sea transportation in Balkans, also the flux of goods and passengers with different types of transport is analysed based on the travel distribution model (Matrix O-D). For this purpose Trans Cad uses Gravitational Model according to mathematic algorithms as below: (1) Where: i & j - Origin and Destination Zone Tij – Traffic passenger flow (road transport) between zones i and j Gi - The number of trips generated by zone i Aj - The number of trips attracted by zone j 313 Cij - Barriers to travel between zones i and j (in function of travelling time between zones i and j) Equivalent flow in cars per hour for one lane is determined using the following equation: (2) Where: Vp – 15-minute passenger-car equivalent flow rate V - hourly volume PHF - peak hour factor fHV - heavy vehicle adjustment factor fP – driver population factor (drivers) Values for the driver population factor, fp, range from 0.85 - 1.0. The density of vehicles: (3) Where: D – density, vp – flow, and S – average speed of a passenger vehicle. In the OD analysis of traffic of goods and passengers, not only the Western Balkans zone into the SEET is included, but also other important zones out of it which are generator of traffic and/or impact centroid-joints in this network: Chisinau (Moldavia), Lviv (Ukraine), Kiev (Ukraine), Odesa (Ukraine), Istambul (Turkey), which are also important joints of Pan- European corridors. Centroid-joints which are away from the impact area for road network of Kosovo are not included in the system. In figures 2 and 3, are given the maps of study zoning done with Trans Cad. 314 Fig.2. Map of study zoning – European States done with Trans Cad Fig. 3. Kosovo’s road and corridor network, done with Trans Cad The data are the inputs of program structured by the matrix formats of tabular data in the form of Excel: xls, xlsx, which serve as basis for conversion into transferable formats in Trans Cad: dbd, bin, mtx, dbf and tab. 315 Through Trans Cad software program, the calculated sizes of traffic flow and respective distances between different areas and (Fig. 2 and 3), seaports of Constanta, of Varna and Burgas in the Black Sea, and ports of Durrës, Bar-Montenegro and Igoumenitsa (Greece) in Adriatic sea, derive, which results that Kosovo presents the shortest road distance: - From the seaport of Constanta